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Right, for me it was looking like an idiot asking what I deemed stupid questions. For him it's wasting apparently even 1 minute of time.
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I have never talked to HR so much in my life. I had to contact them again today because my time off accruals showed zero. Again a remnant of my emc address. They fixed that then single sign on didn't work. They had to contact adp. That's fixed, but now my accruals are wrong (shows me with the wrong start date). Said check again next week. I don't know if these people are incompetent or just underpaid..
On the plus side I got a major story working finally. It definitely makes me realize how far I've come. Something of this magnitude would've taken software engineer 1 me a long time.
Other junior engineer on our team is majorly autistic or asperbergers for sure. Very difficult to talk to, he talks over everyone if he has something to say, won't look you in the eye, very awkward the way he talks, loud and no social cues. Nice guy just hard to talk to. Pretty smart though.
On the plus side I got a major story working finally. It definitely makes me realize how far I've come. Something of this magnitude would've taken software engineer 1 me a long time.
Other junior engineer on our team is majorly autistic or asperbergers for sure. Very difficult to talk to, he talks over everyone if he has something to say, won't look you in the eye, very awkward the way he talks, loud and no social cues. Nice guy just hard to talk to. Pretty smart though.
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So my buddy is an embedded engineer at a cutting edge autonomous aero company. Dude has a solid track record as far as employers...
Anyways, he applied for a embedded job on that new Amazon satellite thing. Amz of course is hush hush about it but he interviewed with the head guy of software who's putting the whole team together, a former SpaceX guy apparently. Dude really liked my friend. They tried to get him on site for an interview but oops, they forgot he needed to do their fucking automated code challenge!
Awesome, so embedded engineer who works in C has to do a fucking code challenge with graphs, and all sorts of CS algorithms.
Seriously what the fuck tech? He also has an interview with Google in 2 weeks. If you guys saw what Google expects him to know you'd shit your pants... Pretty much expect you to know everything an embedded engineer would know and a software engineer - so like they expect him to know algorithms he'll never use.. As someone who has devoted to studying full time for 3 months for these interviews it looked fucking impossible to me.
Daily rant. I just think this is ridiculous. I've seen this guy passed up on my big names like blue horizon, Tesla, Uber just because of bullshit coding interviews. Sigh
Anyways, he applied for a embedded job on that new Amazon satellite thing. Amz of course is hush hush about it but he interviewed with the head guy of software who's putting the whole team together, a former SpaceX guy apparently. Dude really liked my friend. They tried to get him on site for an interview but oops, they forgot he needed to do their fucking automated code challenge!
Awesome, so embedded engineer who works in C has to do a fucking code challenge with graphs, and all sorts of CS algorithms.
Seriously what the fuck tech? He also has an interview with Google in 2 weeks. If you guys saw what Google expects him to know you'd shit your pants... Pretty much expect you to know everything an embedded engineer would know and a software engineer - so like they expect him to know algorithms he'll never use.. As someone who has devoted to studying full time for 3 months for these interviews it looked fucking impossible to me.
Daily rant. I just think this is ridiculous. I've seen this guy passed up on my big names like blue horizon, Tesla, Uber just because of bullshit coding interviews. Sigh
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Those companies do hire people though so there must be programmers that can do both the algorithm challenges and their jobs. So why would a company, with such hiring expectations, hire anyone else?
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Asshat wormie
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Google around and find the graduating classes from Cmu, Stanford, mit and Berkeley and email the graduates.
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My friend who worked on BIOS with me here got a job at google. He said he was interviewing for over 3 months. I never really asked what kind of questions they were, but I mean Google is pretty well known for their interview standards.
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UEFI BIOS for Intel chips. He worked here with me awhile back. Not sure what he went on to do at Google though.
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The automated coding interviews I've gotten pretty good at. A lot of companies just use private Hackerrank stuff. The issue I DO have with them is that you often get 90 minutes (or even as low as 45 minutes) to do them and you get like 2-4 problems to code out. That by itself sucks but made even worse is the absolutely retarded unit testing system in Hackerrank and similar garbage that does not show you what the unit tests are testing for at all.
So, you're in a rush torque out some Java to do whatever and you're getting consistent output correctly. Maybe you test a few edge cases you can think of but you also have a ticking clock so you power on to the next one the moment you have it right.
But the absolute worst part is that its never the hiring team looking at your shit. It's some HR/Talent Acquisition fucker who just looks at it and sees, "this guy got it 72% right via this automated grading scale thing, dumpster his resume."
Even whiteboarding is way better than that shit because you usually have to whiteboard with some engineers. Not some dude with the teacher's edition/solution in his lap saying, "uhhh yeah sure looks decent I guess."
So, you're in a rush torque out some Java to do whatever and you're getting consistent output correctly. Maybe you test a few edge cases you can think of but you also have a ticking clock so you power on to the next one the moment you have it right.
But the absolute worst part is that its never the hiring team looking at your shit. It's some HR/Talent Acquisition fucker who just looks at it and sees, "this guy got it 72% right via this automated grading scale thing, dumpster his resume."
Even whiteboarding is way better than that shit because you usually have to whiteboard with some engineers. Not some dude with the teacher's edition/solution in his lap saying, "uhhh yeah sure looks decent I guess."
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In the last month I've gone through onsite interviews with Microsoft,Amazon and Google. They all had plenty of Leetcode questions but I thought Amazon had the best balance with coding and their leadership principle questions for each interview. Sometimes I wonder about the system design questions asked though... Last week Amazon releases a new enhancement to Prime and one of my design questions was how to improve the exact system they are now just starting to implement. The MS/Google system design questions weren't like that but it's definitely not a bad way to pick up some ideas while interviewing people even when the true intent is still to hire people.
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Just wrote a huge feature. Bigger than I've seen these guys deliver since being here. My boss reviewed it and said "I hope the bios menu pages you referenced dont have hidden bugs, but this looks good". I mean isn't that the point of a code review.... Kind of weird phrasing to me.
basically a feature existed in bios and I made an EFI utility that did the same and more but I had to borrow a bit from Intel's code. Should mention that I debug printed tons of variables and structs as I developed in. You know . Like a competent dev
basically a feature existed in bios and I made an EFI utility that did the same and more but I had to borrow a bit from Intel's code. Should mention that I debug printed tons of variables and structs as I developed in. You know . Like a competent dev
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